Oh. Maybe she had been a bit too quick to share her feelings - unresolved sensitivity from being questioned one too many times about whether the adventuring life was for her.

Peony pressed her lips together. "I walked away from the noble life precisely due to my exhaustion with it all. I didn't want to spend my days under scrutiny of which fork was incorrect or how to correctly address a Baron as opposed to a Vice Baron." She confessed. "They're fucking suffocating people." Lady Titania was the only supplication she could tolerate.